Curriculum
Vitae of Ron S. Kenett
- Interests and expertise:
o
Strategic Planning and Quality Management
o
Statistical Methods and Industrial Statistics
o
Data Mining and Risk Management
o
Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments
o
Change Management and Organizational Development
o
Software Process Quality Management
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Software Cybernetics and Software Reliability
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Biostatistics, Biomathematics and Clinical Trials
- Chairman and CEO of the , Research Professor, University
of Torino, Turin, Italy, International Professor Associate,
Center for Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly,
NY, USA and Visiting Professor at the Faculty
of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ron was Editor in Chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Statistics
in Quality and Reliability, Member of the Advisory Board of
QTQM and Associate
Editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (ASMBI).
He is Chairman of the Board of Takeoff, an organization whose
mission is to help start-up companies develop business and marketing
plans and establish strategic partnerships and a Member of the
Board of Directors of Optimata
and the publicly traded biotech company D-Pharm.
- Professor of Management at the State University of New York
(1987-1992), where he was awarded the General Electric Quality
Management Fellowship. Director of Statistical Methods for Tadiran
Telecommunications Corporation (1981-1990) and Member of the Technical
Staff at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey (1979-1981).
- Ph.D. in Mathematics (1978) from the Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot.
B.Sc. in Mathematics (1974) from Imperial College of Science and
Technology, with first class honors, London University, London,
UK.
Over 25 years of experience
in restructuring and improving the competitive position of organizations
by integrating statistical methods, process analysis, supporting
technologies and modern human resource management systems.
Books
and Chapters by Ron S. Kenett
OPERATIONAL
RISK MANAGEMENT: A practical approach to intelligent data analysis
(co-edited with Y. Raanan). For the printed version click John
Wiley and Sons, 2010. For the on line version click here.
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT AND
CMMI FOR SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE
(With E. Baker and a foreword
by S. Yau), Taylor
and Francis Auerbach Publications, 2010.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STATISTICS
IN QUALITY AND RELIABILITY
Printed
version, John Wiley and Sons, 2007
Online
version, Wiley InterScience, 2008
This four volume major
reference work includes over 2000 pages and 400 entries
in the following areas:
- Management of Quality & Business Statistics
- Process Capability & Measurement Systems Analysis
- Design of Experiments & Robust Design
- Life Distribution Modeling & Accelerated Testing
- Life Cycle & Warranty Cost Prediction
- Health, Safety & Environmental Applications
- Statistical and Stochastic Modeling
- Computationally Intensive Methods & Simulation
MODERN INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS: Design
and Control of Quality and Reliability
(With S. Zacks and a foreword
by Robert W. Galvin, Chairman of the Executive
Committee, Motorola Inc.) Duxbury
press, 1998, Spanish
edition, 2002, 2nd paperback edition, 2002, Chinese edition,
2004.
To
download software included in the CD-ROM attached to the book, click
the name of the requested section that you will need to unzip as
a directory with the zip name under C:\ISTAT
Data
files Minitab Files
JMP Files SPLUS
Files Quick Basic
Files
Chapter
4 Chapter 7
Chapter 9 Chapter
10 Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
SOFTWARE
PROCESS QUALITY: Management and Control
(With E. Baker) Marcel Dekker Inc., 1999.
MULTIVARIATE
QUALITY CONTROL: Theory and Applications
(With C. Fuchs) Marcel
Dekker Inc., 1998.
Chapters
"Modeling
Web Usability Diagnostics on the basis of Usage Statistics"
(with A. Harel and F. Ruggeri) in Statistical
Methods in eCommerce Research , edited by W. Jank and
G. Shmueli, Wiley, 2008.
"The
Statistical Efficiency Conjecture" (with
A. de Frenne, X. Tort-Martorell and C. McCollin) and
"Management
Statistics" (with I. Ograjenšek),
in Statistical
Practice in Business and Industry, edited by S. Coleman, T.
Greenfield, D. Stewardson and D. Montgomery, Wiley, 2008.
"The
Role of Change Management in IT Systems Implementation"
(with S. Lombardo) in- Handbook
of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice , edited
by P. Saha, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Idea Group
Inc., 2007.
“Applying
Case Based Reasoning Approach in Analyzing Organizational Change
Management Data” (with O. Raphaeli and J. Zahavi), in-
Advances
in Data Mining: Applications in Image Mining, Medicine and Biotechnology,
Management and Environmental Control, and Telecommunications; 4th
Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2004 (Lecture Notes in
Computer Science), edited by P. Perner, Springer Verlag,
2005
"Robust Design Using
Computer Experiments" (with R. Bates, D. Steinberg and H. Wynn)
in- Progress
in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2004 (Mathematics in Industry
/The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry)
edited by Al. Di Bucchianico, R. Mattheij, and M. Peletier, Springer
Verlag, 2005
"Process Performance,
Appraisal and Employee Development Planning"
(with M. Maisel) in - Handbook
of Total Quality management edited by C. Madu,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
"Issues in Customer
Satisfaction Survey Design and Implementation" in -
Surveys:
Some good, some less edited by Camil Fuchs and Shaul
Bar-Lev, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd. and Haifa University
Press (in Hebrew), 1998
"Management for Quality
in Ancient Israel" in - A
History of Managing for Quality edited by J. Juran, Quality
Press, 1995
"Understanding the
Software Process" in - Total
Quality Management for Software edited by G. Schulmeyer
and J. McManus Van Nostrand- Reinholt, 1992
Academic
courses
- Software Reliability: a graduate course taught at Tel Aviv University's
School of Engineering (www.kpa.co.il/softrel)
- Statistics for Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics: a graduate
course taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science (www.kpa.co.il/biostat)
Academic
curriculum vitae
Academic
CV of Ron Kenett
Selected publications
for download
Statistical
Methodology and Applied Statistics:
"On
an Exploratory Analysis of Contingency Tables" The Statistician,
32, pp. 395-403, 1983
"Some
Experiences Teaching Factorial Designs in Introductory Statistics
Courses" (with D. Steinberg), Journal of Applied Statistics,
14,
pp. 219-228, 1987.
"Appraisal
of Ceramic Substrates by Multivariate Tolerance Regions"
(with C. Fuchs), The Statistician, 37, pp. 401-411, 1988.
"Two Methods for Comparing
Pareto Charts", Journal of Quality
Technology, 23, pp. 27-31, 1991
"Process
Tracking of Time Series with Change Points", (with S. Zacks),
Recent Advances in Statistics and Probability, pp. 155-171, 1994.
"The
Impact of Defects on a Process with Rework" (with S. Agnihothri),
European Journal of Operations Research, 80, pp. 308-327, 1995
"Data-Analytic
Aspects of the Shiryayev-Roberts Control Chart:
Surveillance of a Non-homogeneous Poisson Process" (with M.
Pollak),
Journal of Applied Statistics, 1, 23, pp. 125-137, 1996.
"Statistical
Efficiency: The Practical Perspective" (with S. Coleman and
D.
Stewardson), Quality and Reliability Engineering International ,
19, pp.
265-272, July-August 2003.
"Applying
Case Based Reasoning Approach in analyzing Organizational Change
Management Data" (with O. Raphaeli and J. Zahavi), In: P. Perner
(Ed.),
Advances in Data Mining: Applications in Image Mining, Medicine
and
Biotechnology, Management and Environmental Control, and
Telecommunications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Springer
Verlag,
Volume 3275, 2004.
"Robust
design using computer experiments" (with D. Steinberg, R. Bates
and
H. Wynn), Proceedings of the 13-th European Conference on Mathematics
for Industry, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Springer Verlag, 2005.
"Improving
enterprise system support - a case-based approach" (with P.
Wognum, J. Krabbendam, H. Buhl and X. Ma), Journal of Advanced Engineering
Informatics, 2005.
"Multivariate
Methods in Enterprise System Implementation, Risk Management
and Change Management" (with O. Raphaeli), International Journal
of Risk
Assessment and Management, 2008.
"Relative
Linkage Disequilibrium: A new measure for association rules"
(with S. Salini ). In: P. Perner (Ed.), Advances in Data Mining:
Medial Applications, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Theoretical Aspects,
ICDM 2008, Leipzig , Germany , July, 2008 . Lecture
Notes in Computer Science , Springer Verlag, Volume 5077,
2008.
"Quality
by Design Applications in Biosimilar Technological Products"
(with D. Kenett), ACQUAL, Accreditation and Quality Assurance
, Springer Verlag, 2008.
“Quality,
Risk and the Taleb Quadrants ”
(with
C. Tapiero), Risk and Decision Analysis, 2009.
“Discussion
of Post-Financial Meltdown: What Do the
Services Industries Need From Us Now? by Roger Hoerl and Ron Snee"
, Applied Stochastic Models in Business
and Industry , Vol. 25, pp. 527-531, 2009.
Risk-Based
Adaptive Group Testing of Semantic Web Services ”
(with X. Bai and W. Yu ). Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
, Springer Verlag, 2010.
Biostatistics:
"Analysis
of Biochemical Genetic Data on Jewish Populations: I. Historical
Background, Demographic Features and Genetic Markers" (with
S. Karlin and B. Bonne), American Journal of Human Genetics, 31,
pp. 324-340, 1979.
"Analysis
of Biochemical Genetic Data on Jewish Populations: II. Results and
Interpretations Heterogeneity Indices and Distance Measures with
Respect to Standards" (with S. Karlin and B. Bonne), American
Journal of Human Genetics, 31, pp. 341-365, 1979.
Shapes
of Velocity Curves in Multiunit Enzyme Kinetic Systems" (with
S. Karlin ), Mathematical Biosciences , 52, pp. 97-115,
1980.
"Low
molecular weight heparin and warfarin in the treatment of patients
with Antiphospholipid Syndrome during pregnancy" (with Rachel
Pauzner, Mordechai Dulitzki, Pnina Langevitz, Avi Livneh, Amira
Many), Tromb. Haemost, 86, pp. 1379-84, 2001.
"Is
it 'bad hygiene' to inhale pollen in early life?" (with C.
Geller-Bernstein , C. Lahoz ,B. Cárdaba , G. Hassoun , M. Iancovici-Kidon
, Y. Waisel), Allergy, 57, Suppl. 71, 2002.
“Hepatic
infarctions during pregnancy are associated with the antiphospholipid
syndrome and in addition with complete or incomplete HELLP syndrome”
(with R. Pauzner, M. Dulitzki, H. Carp, H. Mayan, Z. Farfel and
A. Many), Journal of Trombosis and Haemostasis , 1, pp.
1758-1763, 2003.
“Introduction
of Fish and Shellfish to Atopic Children's Diets and the Risk of
Sensitization: Timing is everything!” (with M. Iancovici-Kidon ,
C. Chin, L. Kang, A. Goh, C. Yu, C. Ming and C. Moh), submitted,
2010.
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